copyright landfill

The practice of mending and repurposing are ancient tools for reflection and of practical use throughout history. Reglow teaches the art of repurposing used garments whilst cultivating inner radiance. The style has come full circle when we turn to embrace our authenticity, our story, and the materials that journey with us.

 “The hardest thing is to believe ones self and yet there’s really nothing else” - Meade

We shine. 
We cast shadows. 
Shadow and light dance like ether and void. 
We glow. 
Each a part of the all.

The way that I experience story is in a non-linear continuum. It is not a fantastical iteration of polarization, of winning or losing. It is by cultivating my relationship to the seemingly mundane, that I celebrate and reality becomes fantastical throughout.

“If there were maps of the invisible realm of the powers that are greater than human, what would those maps look like? There wouldn’t be a unified map, of course, because there is no single minded order to mythtime.” Kane 61

Our current awareness itself is like the map of now for our individual restoration journeys. These stories and myths manifest like fibers that weave together as physicality. The patterns weave together like the clouds of our dreams, like the rivers our spirits flow, like the trees that whisper wisdom, like the soil that births, like the copyright landfill.

“Whatever space is chosen for stories, everyone who listens well help to create the story.” Mellon 9

When we listen to these stories, we have a choice in how we receive them. For myself, when I listen through my heart, semantics fall away and I hear a call to feel acknowledged, accepted, and connected.

In essence we are unified. 
In story we imagine. 
In song we radiate. 
In dance we transform like the fire in our hearts. 



Kane, Sean. Wisdom of the Mythtellers. Broadview Press, 1998

“Re-creating the world with Michael Meade. ND3448” New Dimensions Radio Podcast 08/09/2019, https://player.fm/series/new-dimensions-1250062/re-creating-the-world-michael-meade-nd3448 

Mellon, Nancy. Healing Storytelling. Hawthorn Press, 2019

expanding in communication

This is process and orientation writing. As I seek refinement and growth I am expressing my understanding of what is true for me at this moment. I welcome dissonance is an opportunity to expand awareness.

We are our living stories. Our bodies carry the stories of our ancestors. Whether verbalized, articulated or not, we embody them. When we learn to accept them is where the transformation begins and where we may heal our pain. It is not the stories that change, but our perspective of them. How do we see ourselves in our lives? Where do we carry the emotion of hatred and fear of our own stories? Where do we carry the remembrance of love? What story are we acting out at every moment?

“Because a people co evolve with their habitat, because they walk the paths their ancestors walked, myth telling assumes that the stories already exist in nature, waiting to be overheard by humans who will listen for them… Such stories have a semi-wild existence; they are just barely domesticated and so are free to enact the patterns of the natural world… The definition directs us towards an emotional and philosophical language of co-evolution with nature, a language that allows all life, not just human life, to participate in the ecology of the earth.” Kane 33

Since landfill sites are an accumulation of stagnancy in our global ecosystem, I wonder about the garbage. I wonder about the stories that are held in the womb of landfill. I wonder how they will be through the Great Turning in micro and macro ways.

I don’t believe that outdoors are “nature” and indoors are “human made”. For when humans ARE nature, what we make is also nature (even if we name it garbage and neglect it). In my experience mythos and logos are not separated in dual forms and written text is just as much a living co creator of my reality as an object, plant, and animal. 

From The Activists Tao Te Ching by William Martin:

“55. The Nature of Things

Whatever is forced into existence

will soon fade away.

What is allowed to arise

of its own inherent nature

will remain and prosper.

Therefore, when our work arises

from our own true nature,

we are flexible, yet indestructible;

adaptable, yet powerful;

able to work all day, yet not grow fatigued.”

Kane, Sean. Wisdom of the Mythtellers. Ontario, Broadview Press, 1998.

Martin, William. The Activists Tao Te Ching. Novato, New World Library, 2016.

reorienting communication

May these words come into resonance with the internal voice, body, and environment of the reader:

Oh! and I invite you to read aloud if you like.

There are layers of collective narratives that weave their way through and shape the tapestry of our personal narratives. However, “The stories endlessly repeated by the scribes of Empire become the stories most believed”… “As truth-tellers reach a wider audience, the myths of Empire become harder to maintain”. (David Korten, The Great Turning From Empire to Earth Community: Yes! a Journal of Positive Futures p. 17). The language of existence is beyond that of any definition or symbol. The mystery meets the known: “Whenever we slip beneath the abstract assumptions of the modern world, we find ourselves drawn into relationship with a diversity as inscrutable and unfathomable as ourselves” (David Abram, foreword xiii the moon in the well). This awareness of wonder is not something we grasp, yet may share in experience. Currently, with the infinite reach technology and open source information seems to extend, it is orienting to ground into the context of our own physical bodies and how we experience language. “Digital culture is inherently global”…“the culture of the (physical) book is inherently cosmopolitan”…“oral culture is inherently local in its orientation” (David Abram, POIESIS: A Journal of the Arts and Communication 2009 pg. 94-95). Much like words, the process of materializing comes to life by the essence in which it was made apparent. “From the ancestral point of view, tools made from natural materials, such as Maui’s bone fishhook and Coyote’s flint knife, emanate character and purpose. A carving tool might be so full of its own sort of personhood that the carver refers to it as “he” or “she”. (Erica Meade, Intro, The Moon in the Well pg. 14). Language can be like tools that shape the flow of energy. From policy to roadways, consumption to landfills, and emotional articulation to perception, we shape the flow only to the depth of our relationship with our local environment. “For like any living being, earth’s metabolism depends upon the integrated functioning of many different organs, or ecosystems… so the planetary metabolism is thrown into disarray when each region is compelled to behave like every other region – when diverse places and cultures are forced to operate according to a single, mechanical logic, as interchangeable parts of an undifferentiated, homogenous sphere.” (David Abram, POIESIS: A Journal of the Arts and Communication 2009 pg. 92). Restoring relation begins with the inspiration to do so.

Question: What inspires people to face their fears? Any personal or examples or stories?

For me so far it is understanding that I am the only one who experiences what I experience the way that I experience it, and so I am the only one who can respond directly to that.